UK Charts: Sonic X Shadow Generations Hits The Brakes And Slips Out Of The Top Ten

Welcome back to number 25, BLUEY. 😊

Honestly it's probably just kinda low right now because all of the people who are actually willing to buy a game this instant have probably bought the game. This game will continue to sell once the movie comes out, the holiday shopping season has started, and most importantly, the game gets put on sale. That's usually how Sonic finds most of his sales so I expect it to pick back up when all of those eventually happen.

Let's face it. Sonic hasn't been good since he went 3D and Shadow Generations doesn't feel all that much different than every other 3D Sonic. Yeah maybe in the last decade or so there's been a small handful of decent games. Colors, Generations, and the ones that mimic the early years. That's about it.

Even Frontiers isn't quite right. Some really didn't care for it at all.

The year 2030 mario kart 8 still on the chart .. i think whan sonic 3 film will come so sonic will be on top again

@Truegamer79 Have you played this one though? It's really good. And for frontiers, obviously there were many that didn't care for the game. But there were also many, especially amongst Sonic fans that really enjoyed it. Don't make me die on my Sonic frontiers hill! I will do it! Lol

@Bigmanfan
Well I'm playing through shadow generations now. It's about as good as the first i suppose. I recently picked up Frontiers on a sale but so far it's not exactly holding my attention. People talk like it's finally 3D sonic done right but i don't think it's quite there.

@Truegamer79 That's fair. Frontiers is really a game where it's gotta click for ya in order to be great, which is why I assume there are so many differing opinions around it.

@Truegamer79 I think you got lost on the conversation somewhere, because people only really say "done right" about the story.

The gameplay is something you gotta click with. Because it is in a way a slower, more methodical sonic game. "Stillness and motion" is basically the theme when it comes to gameplay.

My first play through of the game was quite the zen experience, only to then become really hype. That's just the kind of emotional loop the game is going for.

I'll eventually buy it but Sonic 3D games are just not great... they are "good" at best... I mean look at Sonic Frontiers... it's plain horrible...

The game will absolutely sell more after the new Sonic movie comes out, and will sell more over the holiday season. Sonic games aren't as evergreen as Nintendo games, but still sell well.

@Truegamer79 To be fair, a lot of fans liked Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sonic Heroes and Sonic Unleashed too including myself and while some of the 3D games were really bad especially 'Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)' I think some of them have been unfairly judged because of the reputations of the bad ones.

There are many other 3D platform games that haven't been as popular as those ones I mentioned above but don't get hate 'cause they aren't Sonic games.

@Bigmanfan I think it is also a matter of tastes too. I mean I loved the Metroid 2D games but haven't been a fan of any of the 3D ones.

It seems Sonic is only popular in the Americas. I know the mouths from the south like Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil really loves the blue blur as with the many in the norths like Canada, Mexico, and Alaska as well. The blue dude just doesn't cater to the Europeans, Africans, and the Asians.

@Truegamer79 I agree, I played Frontiers on PS4 (so not the best version granted), but it just didn't work for me that well as a game. I feel Bowser's Fury did an 'open zone' far better. I also feel Shadow Generations kind of suffers more than Sonic Generations on Switch, I find the lower resolution a bit distracting. I'm really enjoying Sonic Generations on Switch though, those short replayable stages are great to zip through in portable play.

@Serpenterror Sonic is big here in the UK man, I always see kids rocking the merch.

Did Frontiers have a similar trajectory?

@Drommajin We must have played different games. Frontiers was great!

@RainbowGazelle Wow... have you played it on the Switch? I mean, to say that about Frontiers, if you play the others 3D Sonic games, you will just love them and maybe rate them 10/10.

@Drommajin I played on Switch, yeah. Ended up putting a good 70 hours in, apparently! I loved trying to improve my times in the cyberspace levels. The Switch version certainly looks far worse than the other versions, but it still plays the same. I still enjoy playing Colours on the Wii, too. And I've never quite clicked with the controls and physics of Generations, but I'm trying it again recently, and I'm getting there. It's a shame Lost World and Forces were pretty poor, though.

@RainbowGazelle I'm impressed about Frontiers, still... I've been struggling in the recent years to get into 3D Sonic games in general - my favourite is still Adventure 1. I'm aiming to give another try with Sonic x Shadow Generations and then progress through my backlog of Sonic games, including Mania and Origins.

@Drommajin I still need to play Adventure 1 & 2. I hear they're great. Sonic Mania is really good if you enjoy 2D Sonic. I hope you enjoy it!

@RainbowGazelle I didn't liked SA2 but SA1 was the bomb for me back in the day. I loved my Dreamcast era back when I was 16-yo... I played a few stages on Mania, I'll try again soon.

I know that this is the article about the previous week's sales in UK, but I suppose this is the best place to ask Are there issues with the last week's UK report? We did get the first tidbits about Mario & Luigi's performance but the full report is still missing. Is there any information on when the GfK should release the new report?

@JimNorman is there something going on with the UK charts at the moment? Two Mondays in a row now we've not had any reports posted ☹️